JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The relentless toll of HIV/AIDS
means southern Africa faces more food shortages this year, with
some 3 million people in need of aid despite improved harvests,
the U.N. World Food Programme said on Wednesday.

By Catherine Bremer SAN LUIS ACATLAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Half a dozen men in
black combat gear jump out of a jeep, weighed down by huge
rifles, and nudge a shirtless prisoner through a dusty yard and
into a cramped cell with two other men.

By Jon Herskovitz SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean fortune tellers say the last
time it was this lucky to get married Napoleon Bonaparte's
armies were marching through Europe and Beethoven was penning
his Fifth Symphony.

By Tom Ashby KEGBARA-DERE, Nigeria (Reuters) - Crude oil seeping from a
gnarled steel wellhead forms a lake the size of a soccer field
near the Nigerian village of Kegbara-Dere, but these oil fields
have not exported a drop in 13 years.

The Catholic Church could one day be prosecuted for its right-to-life stance by some countries where abortion is considered a woman's right, a senior Vatican cardinal said in an interview published on Thursday.